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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE
CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t
give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Monday, July 28, 2014

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week…• Describe one of your reading habits.• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it! • Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!• Instead
of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about
something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!

My publisher has a great giveaway happening right now, which includes a copy of their new release, Fred, and an ecopy of my novel, THE ROSE MASTER, as well as a copy of Flux. Sign up below!

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE
CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t
give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Monday, July 21, 2014

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week…• Describe one of your reading habits.• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it! • Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!• Instead
of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about
something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!

Sunday, July 20, 2014

It begins with a boy.
Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an
accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken
in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home
on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to
him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother,
he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously
captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of
art.

As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of
the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works.
He is alienated and in love-and at the center of a narrowing, ever more
dangerous circle.

There’s a reason why this book won the Pulitzer Prize
in fiction. It is a marvel of language and story-telling.

This novel is such a complex story that it is
difficult to give it a genre. Yes, it is literary fiction, but there’s a bit of
everything in it, from comedy to thriller-like action. The best part of it,
though, is the writing. Donna Tartt has a way of writing that always impresses.
Once in a while it can come off as arrogant, I’ll admit that, but there are so
many wonderful passages in this book that you can forgive her for some of the more
highhanded moments.

Theo, our protagonist, is someone we get to know
intimately. He is so well written that he becomes part of our everyday lives. This
is what an author has to strive for: a character that could easily walk down
your street, with his own life and issues. Someone wholly alive.

If you want to read a book that will leave you
wondering how someone can write so beautifully, pick up this one.

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE
CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t
give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!From Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King

"'Hi,' she said. 'Welcome to the Early Birds Club.'"
"'Hopefully we'll catch a worm.'"

Monday, July 14, 2014

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week…• Describe one of your reading habits.• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it! • Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!• Instead
of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about
something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!

I'm having a giveaway for my debut novel on Goodreads, so if you are interested in reading a Gothic novel that is a cross between Jane Eyre and Beauty and the Beast sign up below!

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE
CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t
give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My debut novel, THE ROSE MASTER, is officially out as a paperback today! Here is another teaser for all of you.
And if you want to get a copy click on the book's title below.

Monday, July 7, 2014

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week…• Describe one of your reading habits.• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it! • Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!• Instead
of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about
something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then

The paperback copies of my novel, THE ROSE MASTER, will be available tomorrow! If any of you are interested in buying a copy, go here!

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE
CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t
give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Since my novel, THE ROSE MASTER will be available in paperback on July 9th, I thought I'd share another teaser.

"The
day I turned seventeen, birds fell from the sky. A flock of them seemed to cross
an invisible line in the air, a boundary of packed winter breezes that wrapped
them up in a coat of ice, freezing whatever kernel of magic allowed them power
over the air."